© Sergio A. Delgado 2008 - 2010 // All rights reserved
The themes of life and death have been explored by humanity from the beginning of time.
My art has traditionally pushed boundaries, with all of it's varied methods and substantive
content, it's relational to the trials and feelings in my life. This series embraces the grief
and pain that revolves around separation, significant losses and endings. It explores
mortality, with it's suffering, its chronic pain of unresolved grief and our own aversion and
avoidance to the subject, all the while, affirming the beauty and joy of living.
I created these works as a way of confronting my personal fears and externalizing my
inner traumas. Cognitive perception, emotional response, dreams and past behavior,
provide the content for this work. Creating these images became almost like performance
art of the context and aftermath of a significant loss.
Emotional expressions, exploration for personal meaning, integration and transformation
are the purview of the humanities and arts. Often times, that growth is what allows us to
develop into more empathetic beings. It becomes painfully apparent at the time of major
personal loss and trauma.
Despite life's moments of despair, I affirm life and believe that each of us has been given
gifts in our capacity to love, learn, grow, to choose how to respond to life, whether to deny
or to integrate all its aspects. To understand the universal truth and connection between
cause and effect. We all can consciously confront death and the limits of life, and struggle
to decide whether "'tis better to have loved and lost, than not to have loved at all."
Addressing my audience: My main goal is to reach the viewer and bridge a connection to
the work.
My art has traditionally pushed boundaries, with all of it's varied methods and substantive
content, it's relational to the trials and feelings in my life. This series embraces the grief
and pain that revolves around separation, significant losses and endings. It explores
mortality, with it's suffering, its chronic pain of unresolved grief and our own aversion and
avoidance to the subject, all the while, affirming the beauty and joy of living.
I created these works as a way of confronting my personal fears and externalizing my
inner traumas. Cognitive perception, emotional response, dreams and past behavior,
provide the content for this work. Creating these images became almost like performance
art of the context and aftermath of a significant loss.
Emotional expressions, exploration for personal meaning, integration and transformation
are the purview of the humanities and arts. Often times, that growth is what allows us to
develop into more empathetic beings. It becomes painfully apparent at the time of major
personal loss and trauma.
Despite life's moments of despair, I affirm life and believe that each of us has been given
gifts in our capacity to love, learn, grow, to choose how to respond to life, whether to deny
or to integrate all its aspects. To understand the universal truth and connection between
cause and effect. We all can consciously confront death and the limits of life, and struggle
to decide whether "'tis better to have loved and lost, than not to have loved at all."
Addressing my audience: My main goal is to reach the viewer and bridge a connection to
the work.
Kill Yourself Now; Heal Yourself Now
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SERGIO A. DELGADO // PHOTOGRAPHY